Seasons & episodes

S4 · E1An Exercise in Fatality 1974-09-15 · 98 min＋

A health club owner kills his partner who is about to uncover a fraud and makes it look like an accident

S4 · E2Negative Reaction 1974-10-15 · 91 min＋

Brilliant photographer Paul Galesko plans to murder his domineering wife, Frances, and pin the crime on an ex-convict named Alvin Deschler. His plan is to make it look as if Alvin kidnapped his wife and killed her before picking up the ransom money.

S4 · E3By Dawn's Early Light 1974-10-27 · 98 min＋

The head of a military school kills one of the governors by sabotaging the gun which is used on founders day.

S4 · E4Troubled Waters 1975-02-09 · 98 min＋

While holidaying on board a cruise liner, Columbo helps capture the killer of the singer with the ship's band.

S4 · E5Playback 1975-03-02 · 74 min＋

An inventor video tapes his mother-in-law's death, and then replays it back to the security guard, to give himself an alibi.

S4 · E6A Deadly State of Mind 1975-04-27 · 75 min＋

A doctor kills the husband of the woman he is having an affair with but is seen leaving the house by a witness who is happens to be blind.